principal investigators

Professor Claire Goodman is a district nurse by background and Professor of Health Care Research at the Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care (CRIPACC) at the University of Hertfordshire. Her research focuses on the oldest old and how primary health care works with social care and long term care providers to support this population. She leads a programme of nationally funded studies on health care provision to care homes. In the CLAHRC she is the national lead for the Cross-CLAHRC care home research work stream and is chair of the capacity building committee. She is a founder…

Professor John Clarkson is Professor of Engineering Design, Director, Cambridge Engineering Design Centre. He returned to the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, in 1995 following a seven-year spell with PA Consulting Group's Technology Division where he was Manager of the Advanced Process Group. He was appointed director of the Engineering Design Centre in 1997 and a University Professor in 2004. John is directly involved in the teaching of design at all levels of the undergraduate course. At PA John gained wide experience of product development with a particular focus on the design of medical equipment and high-integrity systems, where…

Professor Fiona Poland is co-lead of the Public and Patient Involvement Theme for CLAHRC EoE. Fiona's career-long concern has been to use the power of qualitative research methods to address the health and wellbeing concerns of individuals and communities. She has worked to promote collaborations and respectful working across voluntary, statutory, academic and policy boundaries especially in community settings, and to improve the lives of those who live and work with dementia. Her research projects and publications explore how and how far community connections and participation may affect access to resources for health and wellbeing. She was twice Chair and…

Professor Garry Barton has a chair in Health Economics and is a member of the Health Economics Group, Norwich Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of East Anglia and his main area of expertise is in the application and development of the methods of economic evaluation. Methodological work which Professor Barton has undertaken includes the comparison of two measures of utility (the EQ-5D and SF-6D) which can be used to measure the benefits of interventions, where the practicality, construct validity, and responsiveness of these two measures were assessed. As a health economist, Garry is a co-applicant on…

Dr Stephen Barclay qualified in 1981 following medical training in Cambridge and Oxford. After GP training in Bristol he started GP work in a market town practice in the Cambridgeshire Fens and then in 1990 moved to a GP practice in Cambridge. He continues to work clinically in both General Practice and Palliative Medicine and is Honorary Consultant in Palliative Medicine at the Arthur Rank House hospice and at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. He leads the teaching of Palliative Care in the School of Clinical Medicine of the University of Cambridge and is Clinical Lead for End of Life Care…

Dr Isabel Clare is a consultant clinical and forensic psychologist in the Enduring Disabilities and/or Disadvantage Theme, where, reflecting her clinical experience and one of her main areas of research interest, she leads projects (i) examining the design and delivery of services by Community Learning Disabilities Teams to men and women with learning (intellectual) disabilities and additional mental health and/or behavioural needs, and (ii) investigating the impact of transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation (tVNS) on the aggressive behaviour of people with neurodevelopmental conditions (learning disabilities and/or autism) or acquired brain injury. She is also a Fellow and Tutor at Lucy Cavendish…

Professor Peter Jones is Director of the NIHR CLAHRC East of England. He is Professor of Psychiatry and Deputy Head of the School of Clinical Medicine at the University of Cambridge. Peter studied anatomy and neurobiology at King’s College, London, and qualified in medicine from Westminster Medical School. He studied at the Bethlem & Maudsley Hospitals and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine before being appointed in 1993 as Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the Institute of Psychiatry. In 1997 he took up the Chair of Psychiatry in Nottingham, moving to Cambridge in 2000. Peter’s research…

Position: University Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Dr Paul Wilkinson is University Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. His particular clinical areas of interest are adolescent depression and self-harm. He carries out research into the epidemiology and treatment of depression and self-harm. Paul also leads teaching of psychiatry to clinical medicine students at the University of Cambridge. Paul leading a CLAHRC project which is evaluated the first UK pilot of interpersonal counseling (IPC) for adolescents, by Suffolk local authority family support workers.

Emeritus Professor Tony Holland leads the Enduring Disabilities and Disadvantage (EDD) theme of the CLAHRC and since 2002 he has held the Health Foundation Chair in Learning Disabilities in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. Together with colleagues he established the Cambridge Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Group (CIDDRG). He has collaborated on research in a broad range of topics including: ageing and the risk of Alzheimer’s disease in people with Down syndrome; the behavioural and psychiatric aspects of Prader Willi Syndrome; the interface between clinical and social care practice and the law including studies relating to…

Dr Howard Ring's background is in research, education and clinical service development in neuropsychiatry and the psychiatry of intellectual disabilities (ID). Howard's research initiatives with CLAHRC included the study of non-pharmacological approaches to epilepsy management in adults with ID and the application of EEG and psychophysiological measures to investigate biological associations of behavioural symptoms in people with neurodevelopmental disorders. Howard also worked on a CLAHRC acceptability and feasibility study seeking to understand if transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) modulation of heart rate variability can reduce aggression by adults with developmental or acquired brain injury.

Professor Carol Brayne is an epidemiologist and public health physician. Her research programme includes research into dementia, healthy ageing and neuropsychiatric epidemiology. The research is multidisciplinary and the Cambridge team straddles the Department of Public health and Primary Care, and the MRC Biostatics Unit (Led by Dr Fiona Matthews). The MRC study of Cognitive Function and Ageing (CFAS) constitutes a major part of the research of this group. Ageing of the global population will be an area of policy interest for many decades as the numbers of old-old individuals increases dramatically. Carol is also Director of the Cambridge Institute of…

Professor Simon Baron-Cohen is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is Director of the Autism Research Centre (ARC) in Cambridge. He holds degrees in Human Sciences from New College, Oxford, a PhD in Psychology from UCL, and an M.Phil in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry. He held lectureships in both of these departments in London before moving to Cambridge in 1994. He is also Director of CLASS (Cambridge Lifespan Asperger Syndrome Service), a clinic for adults with suspected AS. He has been awarded prizes from the American Psychological…